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The_Fat_Man Wootzor von Leetenhaxor FTP Server Offline Grand High Overlard Posts: 910 Colorado Springs, Colorado Gender:	Re: Geek News Reply #390 - Oct 6^th, 2013 at 1:42am I saw this in RealD 3D at Cinemark (think IMAX). Movie is pretty amazing. While you need to suspend your knowledge of physics on occasion it stays pretty realistic and intense the whole movie.
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Geek News Reply #391 - Nov 8^th, 2013 at 8:14am Two more years until Star Wars: Episode VII! It's slated to hit theaters on December 18, 2015! http://starwars.com/news/star-wars-episode-vii-to-open-december-18-2015.html -b0b (...curbs his unwarranted enthusiasm.)
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Geek News Reply #392 - Nov 18^th, 2013 at 9:44am Prepare your wallets, guys! Rumor has it that Steam will be running a Thanksgiving sale next week, and we all know the winter sale will hit in about a month! -b0b (...weeee!)
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Geek News Reply #393 - Nov 20^th, 2013 at 10:44pm WinAmp is finally dead. The last version ever, 5.66, was released today. WinAmp is officially shutting down on December 20th. http://www.winamp.com/media-player/en -b0b (...just bought the Pro version last year.)
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The_Fat_Man Wootzor von Leetenhaxor FTP Server Offline Grand High Overlard Posts: 910 Colorado Springs, Colorado Gender:	Re: Geek News Reply #394 - Nov 21^st, 2013 at 9:28am WinAmp, it really whips the llamas ass!
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Geek News Reply #395 - Nov 21^st, 2013 at 2:34pm The_Fat_Man wrote on Nov 21^st, 2013 at 9:28am: WinAmp, it really whips the llamas ass! I still have a crazy old version of WinAmp on the file server that has that file on it. Here it is, for your listening pleasure! http://www.TWNCommunications.Net/Other/WinAmpLlama.mp3 -b0b (...memories!)
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Geek News Reply #396 - Feb 25^th, 2014 at 8:53am Harold "Egon" Ramis is dead. -b0b (...sad.)
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Reply #397 - Apr 8^th, 2014 at 8:35am

A super, super critical flaw has been found in the OpenSSL suite. Roughly 65% of web servers use OpenSSL to provide secure HTTPS connectivity. Banks, retailers, and even Steam deploy the OpenSSL suite.

I won't bore you with details, but a flaw called Heartbleed has been discovered that could potentially allow an attacker to recover the private key used to encrypt a point-to-point session. In short, this means an attacker could possibly decrypt traffic between you and a site deploying OpenSSL, or even impersonate you when interacting with the site.

I'd recommend minimizing your interaction with sites containing critical information for 24-48 hours to allow sites to deploy the new OpenSSL patch. Every IT shop on the planet is going to be working furiously to get this deployed, but pushing a patch this large into production might take some time.

http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/04/critical-crypto-bug-in-openssl-opens-two...

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X Post Whore FTP Server Offline Truth Is Treason, In The Empire Of Lies Posts: 3903 Gender:	Re: Geek News Reply #398 - Apr 9^th, 2014 at 5:13am Wow, thanks for the heads up. I just saw a quick blurb on this. Kind of defeats the purpose of having the "S" in "HTTPS" X
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Geek News Reply #399 - Apr 9^th, 2014 at 9:35am Yeah, it's pretty scary. The bug allows an attacker to dump random parts of the server's memory, so absolutely everything is fair game. Source code, passwords, administrative data, user details, the whole nine yards. It's pretty scary. -b0b (...will be patching more servers tonight.)
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The_Fat_Man Wootzor von Leetenhaxor FTP Server Offline Grand High Overlard Posts: 910 Colorado Springs, Colorado Gender:	Re: Geek News Reply #400 - Apr 20^th, 2014 at 8:42pm http://io9.com/the-farscape-movie-is-officially-happening-1565378107 Our prayers have been answered Pat!
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X Post Whore FTP Server Offline Truth Is Treason, In The Empire Of Lies Posts: 3903 Gender:	Re: Geek News Reply #401 - Apr 24^th, 2014 at 7:37am It's...it's so beautiful! X
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Reply #402 - Apr 25^th, 2014 at 9:18am

Following a big announcement about the discovery of hundreds of planets by the Kepler spacecraft, NASA has nearly quadrupled the previous record for annual discoveries of new planets. In the chart, the green bars indicate discoveries made through methods not involving Kepler. The red bars indicate previous discoveries by Kepler, and the yellow bar indicates the discoveries discussed in the recent announcement.

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X Post Whore FTP Server Offline Truth Is Treason, In The Empire Of Lies Posts: 3903 Gender:	Re: Geek News Reply #403 - Apr 27^th, 2014 at 3:07am Pretty interesting - http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-digs-up-et-atari-cartridges-2014-4 X (such a terrible game)
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The_Fat_Man Wootzor von Leetenhaxor FTP Server Offline Grand High Overlard Posts: 910 Colorado Springs, Colorado Gender:	Re: Geek News Reply #404 - Apr 29^th, 2014 at 2:00pm http://kotaku.com/this-is-the-cast-of-star-wars-episode-vii-1569305101 The new cast of Star Wars Episode 7. Yes that does say Andy Serkis!
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